ALBAWABA - According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi, around 250,000 refugees have crossed from Lebanon into Syria in the wake of continuous Israeli strikes.
Local authorities, the Syrian Red Crescent, the United Nations, and partners are working tirelessly to offer a compassionate and efficient response to the inflow, he added.
Grandi arrived in the region on Saturday to meet with officials as well as Syrian and Lebanese people who had evacuated Lebanon in response to Israeli assaults. According to Grandi, Israeli air attacks have left hundreds of thousands impoverished or uprooted.
Since September 23, Israel has carried out extensive bombings across Lebanon on what it alleges are Hezbollah targets, killing 1,251, wounding 3,618 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.
Israel began an aggressive round of air attacks on southern Lebanon on Monday, with 100 aircraft attacking over 120 facilities in an hour, according to the country's military.
Despite worldwide warnings that the Middle East was on the verge of a regional war due to Israel's persistent bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv escalated the conflict on October 1 by launching a ground invasion into southern Lebanon.
